Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 13:07:36 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> .. and I'm pretty sure it's immaterial.
>>
>> We don't just do the "ud2" instruction - we also do the file and line
>> number information after it. Which means that __builtin_trap() is useless.
>>
>
> No, not any more. The file and line info is out of line, in a separate
> section, indexed by the ud2a's eip. The main problem with
> __builtin_trap is that there's no certain way to get the actual ud2a eip
> (ie, paste an asm label onto it).
>

Same difference, then...

-hpa
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